The bathhouse also started with one and was built to the current two.
One is for external use, and the other is reserved for the villagers and the owner.
Ma Guifang took these frightened children outside the No. 2 bathhouse for their own use in the village, and warned:
"Men and women are divided into two lines. The girls follow me, and the boys follow Zheng Lai, who is in charge of the affairs."
The houses in the village were almost completed and there was no need for supervision, so Wang transferred Zheng Lai to the bathhouse and made him the bathhouse steward, mainly responsible for inspecting the health supervision of the bathhouse.
Because he was harsh and always carried a small clip to pick up trash, the children in the village gave him a nickname - Zheng Jia!
Meaning: specializing in correcting people's mistakes.
Seeing that the children were divided into male and female queues, Ma Guifang added: "After taking a bath and checking the health status, we are going to see the master's house."
"When you meet the master, the master will give you a job. If you do it well, you will have food and clothing. If you don't do it well..."
Her gentle expression suddenly condensed, and she said coldly: "Those who do not follow the rules and are sneaky will be sent to the mines to work as coolies!"
Immediately, those curious little murmurs disappeared, and the children became more and more uneasy as they looked at the female steward who suddenly changed into a different person.
Naiwa nodded to her sister Fu Bao, trying to reassure her not to be afraid. Seeing that her sister looked better, her heart did not drop.
They followed Xu Dalang from Bingzhou to Youzhou, and saw clearly how this young master treated human life as nothing, and killed people at will. His ruthless appearance made him look like a little king of hell.
Fu Bao watched all the way, and was awakened by nightmares for months at night. Every time he saw Xu Dalang coming down to hand out food, he couldn't hold back his tears, but he didn't dare to moan.
The other children are not much better, the older ones are fine, they know how to disguise themselves so as not to offend their masters.
But the younger ones don't understand. Those who are more afraid of Fu Bao will burst into tears when they see Xu Dalang.
He seemed to dislike the sound of children crying. As soon as someone cried, his handsome face would become frighteningly tight.
Having been so worried all the way to Xujiazhuang, the children felt better after seeing the gentle short-haired female steward. They felt that maybe not everyone in Xujiazhuang was as scary as the eldest young master of the Xu family.
But as soon as these thoughts arose, they saw the cold expression on the female steward's face. Naiwa and the other half-grown children did not dare to relax for even a moment from the tension in their hearts.
On the way here, Naiwa boldly flirted with the eldest son of the Xu family and asked him what he wanted to do after buying so many of their children.
But the eldest young master seemed to not understand what others were saying, and asked angrily: "How do I know what Wang Pingping and Youniang want you to do?"
Naiwa was silent, but she also understood that these children were not wanted by Xu Dalang, but by Wang Pingping and Youniang.
But, who is Wang Pingping? Who is the young lady?
Especially the name Wang Pingping, because of the regional dialect, sounds very similar to the names of wizards such as this and that.
For a while, the children were all spreading the rumor that Wang Pingping was the Xu family's wizard and that the Xu family wanted to use their children as human sacrifices or something, and the rumors became more and more true.
They say that human sacrifices are very particular, and children that are not too bad should not be sacrificed to the gods, so the eldest son of the Xu family lets them eat two meals a day. Sometimes when passing through the town, he will buy eggs and duck eggs and force them to eat. Only by letting them eat well can he
It is good to offer it to God.
And with the introduction of the procedure of taking a bath in the bathroom, words such as washing in vain and checking the body have made many children confirm their suspicions.
The Xu family wants to use them as sacrifices to sacrifice to the gods!
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Ma Guifang only saw that these dolls were now dark and thin, but she did not know that when Xu Dalang first bought them, they were as thin as hemp poles and could not even walk.
This is the result of Xu Dalang feeding him at regular times and adding meals from time to time every day.
Fortunately, Xu Dalang is not here. If he knew that the children he had been worrying about for two months to fatten up were ineffective feeding in Ma Guifang's eyes, he would definitely be furious again.
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With the fear that she was about to become a sacrifice, Naiwa and the other boys followed Zheng Lai into the bathhouse.
The bathhouse with cement walls on all sides looked like a cold prison. The children stood in rows shivering and took off all their clothes.
Several people wearing white cloth covers and white coats came in, holding various strange things in their hands, and walked towards them one by one.
These people in white coats spoke calmly, not harshly, but they didn't smile either.
"Open your mouth, ah~"
Naiwa opened her mouth, a little scared and a little curious.
The man held his chin, turned his head left and right, and carefully looked at his teeth. Then he played with his eyes and rolled up his eyelids. He didn't know what he was looking at. In short, he didn't miss any of his facial features.
Another person came over and said: "Look at my movements, follow me, turn your head, lift your legs, raise your hands, jump... Well, my limbs are not disabled and are completely healthy."
Naiwa understood the first half of the sentence but not the second half. What does complete health mean?
He just looked at the man writing something quickly with a thin black strip (charcoal pen) on a notebook with a wooden board. After he finished writing, he moved on to the next one.
"Come with me after the examination."
Someone shouted from the front, and Naiwa followed the children who had finished the examination and entered the larger room behind the low wall.
Before entering the room, all hair must be shaved.
Only when everyone is naked can we really enter the big house inside.
When we got here, a puff of water vapor hit us, and it was so white that we couldn't see clearly even in the distance.
There was a commotion in the team, and several staff members strode in, each of them ordered four or five children to take away.
Naiwa and the other four and a half young men were led by Zheng Lai, and they came to the white mist anxiously.
The person in charge shouted slogans from behind the wall while letting them watch his operations.
While listening carefully, she heard another child's frightened exclamation. Naiwa instantly tensed up, like a vigilant cheetah.
Zheng Zheng looked at him like this. He seemed to be amused and laughed out loud: "Look at what scared you. It's just the shower head. Listen..."
Hearing what he said, Naiwa listened carefully again. The exclamations had disappeared and were replaced by the novel whispers of children.
At this time, chants were shouted from behind the wall, and then a stream of water spurted out from the strange lotus tube above the head. The water flow poured in, spraying on the heads of Naiwa and several people. The warm water washed their bodies, and several The child couldn't help but relax.
Zheng Lai looked on, shook his head in amusement, took the towels and soy soap handed by the staff, and taught them how to scrub them clean.
